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2013-08-26 Government

New Snowdenski docs: NSA bugged UN in NYC

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway?
Is the NSA doing it just to do it?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-26 01:27|| 2013-08-26 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Paris has the Gare de Lyon and six other major train stations. New York City has only one major intelligence station. Been that way since the ribbon was cut.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-26 03:03|| 2013-08-26 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Exactly, AP. Maybe they wanted to know the best place to get paper for strongly worded memos...and hookers, of course.

Posted by Spot 2013-08-26 08:23|| 2013-08-26 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 NSA bugged UN in NYC

To get the names of best restaurants & cathouses?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-26 08:40|| 2013-08-26 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 What intelligence is of any value in the UN, anyway?

While the UN itself is one giant useless force, fully half the participant states are card-carrying members of the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union.

Is the NSA doing it just to do it?

It does sound kinda like a summer intern training project.

Posted by SteveS 2013-08-26 10:37|| 2013-08-26 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 When it comes to networking, subnetworks separated by routers and switches hopefully prevent intruders from passing into the subnets, unless a program can be installed on the inside that allows for pass through. The beauty about the computer age is programs can be written to do anything. That is also a danger of the computer age.

Posted by Uneaper Spairong8790 2013-08-26 18:35|| 2013-08-26 18:35|| Front Page Top

#7 If Snowden is truly shocked by this then he is a rube.

This sort of thing is what they are supposed to do. But not the US domestic surveillance.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-26 22:36|| 2013-08-26 22:36|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree OS. The UN should be a very high priority target and I'm sure it is. The senior foreign service folks who work there are not former Sunday school superintendents or business accountants, they are in the intelligence business at one level or another.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-26 22:45|| 2013-08-26 22:45|| Front Page Top

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